Participation at SMC 2025
11.07.2025
The 22nd Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2025) takes place in Graz from July 7 to 12. Members of our institute actively participated in the conference and presented their current research work. David Weigl presented the contribution in the field of Music Performance Analysis (Jiang, Weigl and Goebl), while Tim Tarek Grund presented the research on "Cloud hands: Three Emanations of a Touchless Musical Asemblage" (Grund and Hofmann).
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MAPPER Symposium at IWK
10.07.2025
The MAPPER – A Symposium on Music Acoustics for Performance Preparation and the Engagement with Repertoire in Live-Electronics, which took place on 1st and 2nd July at mdw Vienna, brought together artists, academics and technicians from Asia, South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. During the symposium, 15 lecture-performances were presented, addressing topics such as music acoustics, new interfaces for musical expression, engagement with repertoire, and cross-cultural collaborations in the context of live electronics. The interdisciplinary nature of the programme fostered valuable discussions and highlighted innovative developments at the intersection of research, technology, and art.
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IWK is organising the first MAPPER Symposium
26.06.2025
The Department of Music Acoustics – Wiener Klangstil is organising the first MAPPER – A Symposium on Music Acoustics for Performance Preparation and the Engagement with Repertoire in Live-Electronics. The symposium will take place at the mdw campus in the Soundtheatre (Future Art Lab) on 1st and 2nd July 2025. Bringing together experts from Asia, South America, Europe and Africa, the symposium will facilitate knowledge exchange through a variety of lecture-performances, group discussions and live presentations.
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End of semester 2025
25.06.2025
The Department of Music Acoustics – Wiener Klangstil can look back on a successful academic year 2024/25. All of the Department's teaching staff had a lot of fun introducing our students to topics from the field of music acoustics in a wide variety of courses. This was also the case in the course "Musikwissenschaftliches Praktikum", in which the students programmed our industrial robot to play some notes on a guitar (here is a brief insight).
We wish all students a relaxing summer and look forward to the next academic year!
Participation at Forum Acusticum 2025
25.06.2025
The 11th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, Forum Acusticum Euronoise 2025, was held in Málaga from June 23 to June 26, 2025. The event brought together experts in acoustics from across Europe to share the latest research and developments in the field. Our department members Montserrat Pàmies-Vilà, Paul Amann and Vasileios Chatziioannou actively participated in the convention, presenting their current research focusing on the role of acoustics in music education and the acoustical impact of mouthpieces on brass wind instruments.
Project funding as part of CLARIAH-AT membership
26.05.2025
The Department of Music Acoustics – Wiener Klangstil is pleased to announce that the submission of the project "Ringvorlesung Musikwisssenschaft & Digital Humanities" in cooperation with the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies within the framework of the recently concluded CLARIAH-AT membership of the mdw was successful. The project was conceptualised and submitted by Melanie Unseld (Department of Musicology and Performance Studies) and Werner Goebl (Department of Music Acoustics – Wiener Klangstil). It will make an important contribution to the further development of digital humanities at the mdw. In this context, the introduction of a lecture series is planned for the summer semester 2026.
Contact persons: David Morrison-Weigl and Chanda VanderHart
Participation at ICA 2025
23.05.2025
The International Congress on Acoustics took place from May 18 to 23 in New Orleans. Members of our department Alessio Lampis, Ewa Matusiak, Titas Lasickas and Vasileios Chatziioannou actively participated in the event, delivering presentations on their ongoing research and recent developments in the field of music acoustics.
SAR Conference Presentation
13.05.2025
The 16th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research took place from May 7 to 9 at the University of Porto. It brought together leading practitioners, scholars, and policymakers to present outstanding artistic research projects and engage in critical debates on key issues. As part of this years conference, our institute member Dustin Zorn presented his research on "Resonating with live-electronic ghost tones".
IWK visits the Collection of Historic Musical Instruments at KHM
27.02.2025
The Department of Music Acoustics – Wiener Klangstil had the honour to visit the Collection of Historic Musical Instruments at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, guided by the new director of the museum, Dr. Sebastian Kirsch. The visit provided a unique insight into the collection of historical instruments and the restoration workspace, and marked an exciting exchange between music acoustics research and museum curation.